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April 16, 1935.. G, A, CHRISTIE 1,997,785

PACKAGE Filed Oct. 51, 1933 1;" l I I w 7/ 16 13 a VI' i :5 13 15 [M I16 I I i f f INVENTOR,

680 diam-n Patented Apr. 16, 1935 v PACKAGE George A. Christie, Prospect Park, N. J. Application Oct ber 31, 1933, Serial No. 695,975. "6 Claimsi" (o1. roe-44) Ribbon is now packaged for sale in the form of a fiat bolt or hank having a transparent Cellophane strip incorporated with it (i. e., by winding the ribbon and strip, together in a flat mass) and having some means to preserve it as such flat bolt or hank, as so called bendovers (that is, paperstrips having bendable wires incorporated therein) wrapped around the bolt or hank near each end, the transparent strip'permitting inspection of the ribbon mass while protecting the exposed faces of the ribbon from handling. When such a package is, as is usually the case,

sold complete, or without cutting ofi so much as the customer requires,v it is obvious that there is a wastegof all of the Cellophane excepting so much as covers the last or outermost convolution of the ribbon. One object of this invention is to provide a ribbon pack in which transparent Cellophane for protecting and permitting inspection of the fiat-wound ribbon mass may be used in a quite economical way. Another object is to provide a ribbon pack including anatwound ribbon mass, and whether or not having transparent Cellophane or the like flexible sheet material to protect and permit inspection of the ribbon, which shall be inexpensive to manufacture and compact, neat and attractive in appearance and structurally stable and thus adapted to withstand the usage incident topacking, Shipping andhandling and in which the ribbon mass shall be completely protected from handling or the access of dust thereto.

In the drawing I show two forms of theinve'ntion by way of example,

Fig. 1 being a perspective view of the first form; Fig. 2 a longitudinal section thereof; and Fig. 3 a plan of the parts preparatory to the final step in assembling them; and

Figs. 4, 5 and 6 being, respectively, similar views flap adapted on the bending to be left standing.

upright and form a side wall. The mid-portion has an aperture 1. What I term a wrap will, after the bending, be formed by the mid-portion and flaps and the portions 6,'if present.

Having the blank resting on a table or other supp rt; a strip oi transparent Cellopha r equivalent flexible sheet material 8 of somewhat greater length than the blank (measured lengthwise of the scoring lines) is laid onthe midportion13 parallelv with said lines and so that its ends both project beyond the sides of the, blank intersected by said lines; the strip 8may be drawn from aroll or'other supply thereof and, with'its end portion laid on the blank with its extremityprojecting beyond thelatter, severed short of the blank. v

I Then the bolt or hank 8, the length of which will usually be at least equaled by thatof the blank, is laid on the strip, likewise parallel with lines 2, whereupon the bending of the blank on said lines is done, to wit, so that the flaps 4 and 5 overlie the Cellophane and lap each other, flap 5 being leftas the outer one.

Finally the projecting ends of the Cellophane strip are bent back on flap 5 and secured 7-,

thereto, preferably with the use of adhesive, as by the adhesive seals or pasters shown in Fig. 2 at I0.

Since the Cellophane strip extends over the front of the hank or bolt and. is secured at its ends to the outer flap 5 it keeps the hank or bolt from slipping out of the wrap at its ends and the wrap intact, or with said flap 5 lapping the other flap 4.

In the form shown by Figs. 4 to 6 the rectangular blank II is scored on parallel lines I2 so as when bent on said lines to produce a wrap including a mid-portion l3, flaps l4 and I5 and portions l6 corresponding to portions 6, midportion l3 having a window opening l1. But the blank in this form has two tabs I8 projecting from the ends of flap 15, which is the outer one of the completed wrap. The transparent Cellophan strip IS in this form is short enough not to project beyond the ends of the blank when it is laid thereon substantially as hereinbefore described. When said strip has been laid on the mid-portion and the hank or bolt 20 laid on the strip and the blank bent on the scored lines l2 substantially as already described, the tabs are bent on the scored lines 2| and their extremities entered between the Cellophane strip and the mid-portion l3. Hence the tabs serve not only to prevent the hank or bolt and also the Cellophane strip from slipping out at the ends of the wrap but by extending from the outer flap l5 into the wrap they preserve the latter intact, or with said flap lapping the other flap M! So far as I am aware it is new in t f art to provide a wrap of sheet material compris l' a rectangular wall (as 3 or l3) and wings (as 45 or I4-l5) extending from and substantially coextensive in length with opposite sides of said wall and bent over the same and lapping each other, in combination with a unitary mass (as 9 or 20) contained in the wrap, the wrap also including a wall structure of sheet material extending between said mass and wall and around both ends of the mass and connected to the relatively outer wing, such wall structure in Fig. 1 being the strip 8 and in Fig, 5 comprising strip l9 and the tabs Hi. In the preferred form the said wall has an aperture and the strip closes the aperture but is transparent, as set forth.

The first form of the invention is preferred because a plain rectangular piece may be used for the wrap and because the assembly may be performed with greater facility and also because a more stable and nicely formed product is possible.

There may be more than one aperture I (or IT) as shown, and they may be of any form and arranged otherwise than as shown. 1

While I have herein referred to ribbon as-the material to be packaged, it' will be understood that other materials may be packaged in accordance with this invention.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim is: I

1. In combination, a unitary mass of material to be packaged and a container therefor comprising a wrap formed from a substantially rectangular blank of sheet material having portions at two opposite sides thereof bent over the intervening part of the blank on substantially parallel lines and forming flaps lapping each other, said mass being arranged between said parts and the flaps, and a flat strip, of approximately the same width as said part of the blank between said lines, extending between said mass and part lengthwise of said lines and having its ends bent back upon the outer flap.

2. In combination, a unitary mass of material to be packaged and a container therefor comprising a wrap formed from a substantially rectangular blank of sheet material'having portions at two opposite sides thereof bent over the intervening part of the blank on substantially parallel lines and forming flaps lapping each other, said mass being arranged between said part and the flaps, and a flat strip, of approximately the same width as said part of the blank between said lines, extending between said mass and part lengthwise of said lines and having its ends bent back upon and attached to the outer flap.

3. In combination, a mass of material to be packaged and a container therefor comprising a wrap formed from a substantially rectangular blank of sheet material having portions at two opposite sides thereof bent over the intervening part of the blank on substantially parallel lines and forming flaps lapping each other, said part having an aperture and said mass being arranged between said part and the flaps, and a strip of sheet material extendingbetweensaid mass and part lengthwise of said lines and covering said mass at the aperture and having its aperture-0pposed portion transparent and its ends bent back upon the outer flap.

' 4. In combination, a mass of material to be packaged and a container therefor comprising a wrap formed from a substantially rectangular blank of sheet material having portions at two opposite sides thereof bent over the intervening part of the blank on substantially parallel lines and forming flaps lapping each other, said part having an aperture and said mass being arranged between said part and the flaps, and a strip of sheet material extending between said mass and part lengthwise of said lines and covering said mass at the aperture and having its apertureopposed portion transparent and its ends attached to the outer flap and holding the latter in lapped relation to the inner flap.

5. In combination, a wrap of sheet material comprising a rectangular wall and wings extending from and substantially coextensive in length with opposite sides of said wall and bent over the same and lapping each other, and a unitary mass to be packaged contained in the wrap, said wrap also including a wall structure of sheet material of approximately the same'width as said wall and extending between said wall and mass and around both ends of the mass and connected to the relatively outer wing.

6. In combination, a wrap of sheet material.

comprising a rectangular apertured wall and wings extending from and substantially coextensive in length with opposite sides of said wall and bent over the same and lapping each other, and a unitary mass to be packaged contained in the wrap, said wrap alsoincluding a wall structure of sheet material extending between said wall and mass and around both ends of the mass and connected to the relatively outer wing and having a transparent portion in covering relation to the aperture in said wall.

GEORGE A. CHRISTIE. 

